Marie Hirel
Postdoc at Cognitive Ethology Lab @DPZ | Ph.D. in Behaviour & Cognition | Interested in social cognition, cognitive ecology, comparative psychology, decision-making, cultural and cognitive evolution | she/her
- Reposted by Marie HirelFully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏
- Reposted by Marie Hirel🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marie Hirel💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
- Reposted by Marie HirelApplications open for fully funded 4-yr positions in the unique interdisciplinary program of the @maxplanck.de School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for science at the forefront of fundamental & applied research, mentored by a network of world renowned researchers.🧪 cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en
- Reposted by Marie HirelOur new chapter is out! 📢 Co-first-authored with @mawadafreville.bsky.social with attentive supervision of @chacanteloup.bsky.social🤗 How has intentionality been theorised in developmental psychology and primatology, and how is it studied in animal signals?🐒🦜👶 Take a look 👇 doi.org/10.1016/B978...
- Curious about how primates acquire and process social information to generate social knowledge? 🦧 Check out our new review paper on social evaluation, with a particular focus on the cognitive mechanisms involved in assessing others' skills and competence 👇
- 🔔 New paper out on Social evaluation of skill and competence in primates @mariehirel.bsky.social, @williamohearn.bsky.social and @julxf.bsky.social made this happen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Marie Hirel#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒 The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet. 📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!
- 🎉 Just days to go until our MacaqueNet Workshop in Kolkata! 🗓️ Sun 24 Aug | 13:00–16:00 IST ✨ Open to all (online & in-person) 📋 Members-only Board Meeting (16:00–17:00) 🍽️ Optional Dinner View the schedule & signup now via our website: macaquenet.github.io/symposia/ #MacaqueNet #Behaviour2025
- 🚨 My 2nd PhD chapter is now out in Animal Behavior and Cognition We explore social evaluation of skills in Tonkean macaques in cooperative contexts with a promising experimental design 🧮👀🐒 @skeupp.bsky.social @julxf.bsky.social Check it out here: www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...
- Reposted by Marie Hirel🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
